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Bolivia, and Peru, and the great value of those 

 services and privileges to the success of the 

 enterprise, — to recommend their importance to 

 the consideration of the projected company in 

 any estimate, which it may think proper to 

 form, with a view to their remuneration ; and, 

 bearing in mind the unceasing mental and 

 physical exertions required for an efficient su- 

 perintendence of the interests of the company, 

 in their practical management on these coasts, 

 to suggest that a sum, of not less than five 

 per cent, on all receipts, be allowed to the 

 principal managing agent, as remuneration for 

 such superintendence. 



In conclusion, the committee have to remark, 

 that, considering the intimate connexion exist- 

 ing between the whole trade of the Pacific 

 coast and Callao, and the central situation of 

 that port, they could not, consistently with a 

 proper consideration of the subject submitted 

 to their investigation, have limited their in- 

 quiries to the practicability of any project for 

 the establishment of a periodical intercourse 

 only between the ports of Peru and Panama ; 

 they were therefore constrained to embrace, 

 in their inquiries respecting the eligibility of 

 the project presented to them, the question 

 of its practicability and adaptation to aU the 



